$24M Dickson budget gets final approval

The proposed $24 million budget for the City of Dickson recently received a second and final vote by the Dickson Council.

There was no discussion or changes to the budget, which was approved June 4.

The 2018-2019 budget will not require an increase in the city’s property tax rate of 94.95 cents per $100 of assessed value.

The budget projects revenues of $5.981 million from the city’s share of the local option sales tax; $4.153 million from property taxes; $1.175 million from state-shared sales tax; and takes $2.548 million from the city’s projected record fund balance of $13.5 million.

Other budget highlights:

2 new school resource officers in the Dickson Police Department to serve schools in the city;

$1.35 million for the purchase of the former Dickson Country Club to become Henslee Park;

$800,000 for local street-paving projects;

$85,000 for sidewalk projects;

$75,000 for renovations at the War Memorial Building;

$1.5 million for construction in Phase IV of the Downtown Revitalization Project with approximately $1.1 million to be reimbursed in a grant that has already been awarded;

A 2 percent cost-of-living adjustment for all city employees;

Another 2 percent increase in each department’s salary budget to be distributed based on employee evaluations;